Just as an update to what exactly is RHEL python 2.6... This is the expanded source rpm:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8405074/ The main one here appears to be: - python-2.6.6-ordereddict-backport.patch Full changelog @ http://paste.ubuntu.com/8405082/ Overall I'd personally like to get rid of python 2.6, and move on, but then I'd also like to get rid of 2.7 and move on also ;) - Josh On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> wrote: > On 09/22/2014 10:58 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: >> On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 10:32 -0700, Armando M. wrote: >>> What about: >>> >>> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/test-requirements.txt#L12 >> >> Pulling in ordereddict doesn't do anything if your code doesn't use it >> when OrderedDict isn't in collections, which is the case here. Further, >> there's no reason that _get_collection_kwargs() needs to use an >> OrderedDict: it's initialized in an arbitrary order (generator >> comprehension over a set), then later passed to functions with **, which >> converts it to a plain old dict. >> > > So - as an update to this, this is due to RedHat once again choosing to > backport features from 2.7 into a thing they have labeled 2.6. > > We test 2.6 on Centos6 - which means we get RedHat's patched version of > Python2.6 - which, it turns out, isn't really 2.6 - so while you might > want to assume that we're testing 2.6 - we're not - we're testing > 2.6-as-it-appears-in-RHEL. > > This brings up a question - in what direction do we care/what's the > point in the first place? > > Some points to ponder: > > - 2.6 is end of life - so the fact that this is coming up is silly, we > should have stopped caring about it in OpenStack 2 years ago at least > - Maybe we ACTUALLY only care about 2.6-on-RHEL - since that was the > point of supporting it at all > - Maybe we ACTUALLY care about 2.6 support across the board, in which > case we should STOP testing using Centos6 which is not actually 2.6 > > I vote for just amending our policy right now and killing 2.6 with > prejudice. > > (also, I have heard a rumor that there are people running in to problems > due to the fact that they are deploying onto a two-release-old version > of Debian. No offense - but there is no way we're supporting that) > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev